- Title:
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Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future (MP3)
- Series:
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Quarterly Essay #49
- Written by:
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Mark Latham
- Read by:
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Robert Meldrum
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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2 hours 43 minutes
- MP3 size:
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118 MB
- Published:
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April 01 2013
- Available Date:
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April 28 2013
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781743153468
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Current Affairs & Politics
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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In election year 2013, this will be an essential and much-discussed contribution to national political debate.
'During the term of the Rudd and Gillard governments, criticism of the Labor Party became a national pastime.' So writes Mark Latham, a one-time leader of the party and still its most perceptive – and fiercest – critic.
In Quarterly Essay 49, Latham argues that the time has come to go beyond criticism to solutions. In that spirit, he offers a timely assessment of the future for Labor. He examines the key challenges: the union nexus, the Keating settlement, a real education revolution, a new war on poverty, climate change, and handling the Greens.
With wit and insight, he suggests that Labor's biggest problem is the steady erosion of its traditional working-class base. Across the suburban flatlands of Australia's major cities, people who grew up in fibro shacks now live in solid-stone double-storey affluence. Families which were once resigned to a lifetime of blue-collar work now expect their children to be well-educated professionals and entrepreneurs. Can Labor reinvent itself and speak to a changed Australia?